The surname You
A Chinese surname, carried by 5,234 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex Y000
Origin
Chinese origin
From irregular, Wade–Giles, and Hanyu Pinyin romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciations of various Chinese characters, including 余, 于, 由 (yóu), 魚 /鱼 (yú) / 鱼 (yú), 漁 /渔 (yú), 渔 (yú), 楀 (yǔ), 俞, 喻, 兪, 於 /于, 遇 (yù), 虞 (yú), 郁 (yù), 尉, 禹 (yǔ), 游 (yóu), 尤 (yóu), 庾 (yǔ), 娛 /娱, 娱, 茹, 幽 (Yōu).
One of 193 Chinese surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 5,234 people named You in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 58,988 Americans. That is up 61% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,246.
Who is named You
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named You identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 2.2% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as two or more races.
- Asian and Pacific Islander 95%
- White (not Hispanic) 2.2%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%
Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
You has the Soundex code Y000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y000.
Other Chinese surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname You come from?
- From irregular, Wade–Giles, and Hanyu Pinyin romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciations of various Chinese characters, including 余, 于, 由 (yóu), 魚 /鱼 (yú) / 鱼 (yú), 漁 /渔 (yú), 渔 (yú), 楀 (yǔ), 俞, 喻, 兪, 於 /于, 遇 (yù), 虞 (yú), 郁 (yù), 尉, 禹 (yǔ), 游 (yóu), 尤 (yóu), 庾 (yǔ), 娛 /娱, 娱, 茹, 幽 (Yōu).
- How common is the surname You?
- 5,234 people in the United States had the surname You in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 58,988 Americans. It ranked 6,486th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname You?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named You identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 2.2% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname You getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,246 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,234 in 2010, up 61%.